Reading Section – MILK.
Posted on: January 3, 2009
Eight to ten thousand years ago, people’s bodies began to change so they could drink animal’s milk. This happened after people began keeping animals. These people were in Europe, the Middle East and parts Africa. Milk became an important food.
People coundn’t always depend on milk, though. Animals only have milk for part of the year. When baby animals grow bigger, their mothers’ milk dries up. Also, milk only keeps for a short time.
In order to have milk-based food all year, people learned to make cheese. THey used a small piece of the animal’s stomach. They found that this thickened the milk. When the thichkened milk dired, they could store it for five or ten years.
QUESTIONS
1. All of the following are true EXCEPT:
(a) milk can be used for making cheese
(b) people coudn’t store milk so they let it go sour
(c) long ago, people in some places began to drink animal’s milk
(d) milk becomes thick when it dries.
2. Which of the following best states the topic of the passage?
(a) People and animals
(b) Babies and milk
(c) Cheese from Europe and the Middle East
(d) Milk and Cheese.
3. Which of the following is closet meaning to word “found”?
(a) Started, began
(b) Learned, discovered
(c) Used, made
(d) Kept, stored
4. In your words, what is the main isea of the first paragraph?
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